Sprochamaedli wrote:Has anyone else noticed how Albanian and English phonologies are very similar, almost exactly the same?

I'm not sure what you mean. The vowel inventories are totally distinct (Albanian has a 7-vowel system; several varieties of English have twice that many distinctive vowels before you even begin to count diphthongs). In the consonants, Albanian has a whole palatal series lacking in English as well as phonemic distinction between trilled and flapped r and "light" and "dark" l.

Sure you're not just making too much of the presence of a couple of dental fricatives? Arabic has those, too, you know.

Yes, I know. But they're still both Indo-European. I did say that they weren't closely related..

I'm not sure what you mean. The vowel inventories are totally distinct (Albanian has a 7-vowel system; several varieties of English have twice that many distinctive vowels before you even begin to count diphthongs). In the consonants, Albanian has a whole palatal series lacking in English as well as phonemic distinction between trilled and flapped r and "light" and "dark" l.